Governance

Louis is a partner at law firm Allens, where he specialises in renewable energy, infrastructure, and climate change, acting for a range of private sector and government clients.  An alumnus of Xavier College and the University of Melbourne, Louis is father to two Loreto Toorak graduates.

Louis has been a School Board Member since 2018 and Board Chair since 2021.  He has held several other not-for-profit board positions, including with ER Law, the Energy and Resources Law Association, and Asialink, based at the University of Melbourne.

As a Partner at Ernst and Young, David is focused on helping organisations achieve significantly higher returns from their IT dollar through transformation of the IT and Change teams, improved governance, and the development of modern, agile, and fit-for-purpose strategies. David is passionate and transformational leader driving bottom line results through smarter use of technology and building high performance, agile IT teams. He has led significant change as a consultant for 17 years with Accenture and EY, and in financial services with Commonwealth and National Australia Banks. Some highlights include leading the four-year transformation of NAB's technology organisation into a high-performance team powering the digitisation of banking services for customers, and the design and implementation of new IT operating models for three of Australia's financial services organisations.

With over 22 years in the Recruitment and HR industry, Sally has extensive experience in consulting, leading teams, sales and nationally managing the businesses across the IT, Scientific, Executive Management, Office Support, Executive, Call Centre, Banking and Finance, Management Consulting as well as Accounting practices.

Currently Sally is the Managing Director of flexhive, powered by Hudson. She was previously on the Royal South Yarra Board for 7 years as well as holding the position of Vice President and Board member of the Australian Women’s Tennis Foundation for 4 years.

Sally was a past student at Loreto Toorak for 13 years, and her nieces that went though the School include Francesca Jones, Annabel Jones, and Abigail Ralph.

Kate has been with The Walt Disney Company for 12 years. She is Head of Communications, Government Relations, Corporate Social Responsibility and Live Entertainment for Disney in Australia and New Zealand. Kate is a key member of the Executive Leadership team and is part of the Executive team leading Diversity and Inclusion for the company.  As well, Kate has over 25 years of experience in marketing, product management, change management, communications and corporate social responsibility working for global blue-chip companies. Kate has a Master of Marketing from Monash University and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. She is the mother of two children, one of which is a current student at Loreto Toorak.

Lesley, along with her husband Roger, are founders of Bakers Delight, a 670-plus bakery franchise network across four countries: Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States. Community involvement has been important, and over the years Lesley has been involved in many community activities ranging from serving on school boards to chairing advisory committees at Swinburne and Monash universities.

In 2019 Lesley was asked to join the Board of the Australian Business Growth Fund. This initiative is a federal government partnership with the major banks and is committed to helping small and medium sized businesses prosper leading to more employment and ultimately stronger more cohesive communities. It is modelled on similar funds in the UK and Canada.

Lesley’s accomplishments include 2006 OAM Order of Australia Medal; 2014 Champion of Entrepreneurship at the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur Of The Year™ Southern Region awards and Honorary Doctorates from both Swinburne University of Technology (2018) and Monash University (2021).

Dr Helen Goode has worked in primary, secondary, tertiary and adult education in the State, Catholic and Independent Schools in Victoria. Her qualifications include PhD, M Ed, BA, Grad Dip Ed Admin and Grad Dip Student Wellbeing. In addition to her work as a lecturer in the Master of Education program at Melbourne University, she operates her own educational consultancy business specialising in leadership development and organisational review. She networks and researches extensively with academics world-wide and presents frequently at conferences both nationally and internationally. Research interests and publications include sustainability of successful leadership, learning communities, teacher career paths and the role of coaching in building leadership capacity, and marketing in education.

Through sitting on and consulting with several educational and other Boards of Management, Councils and Commissions over a number of years, she brings with her experience in various models of governance. She is a Fellow of the Australian Council of Educational Leaders both in Victoria, and nationally and a Research Fellow of the Education University of Hong Kong.

John comes to the School Board with a wealth of property expertise having spent over 30 years in the industry. John has covered all disciplines, from property management, operations and maintenance to construction and the development of major projects.

Today, John runs his own development company and consultancy business offering services in all aspects of property management and development. As part of his consultancy practice, John consults private schools and universities on their masterplan, development and construction needs.

While at Loreto Toorak, John has been a key team member in the development of the Mandeville Centre, Winifred Square, Crescent Theatre, and the new Clendon Centre.

Andrew Tanner has more than 27 years of experience in financial markets including five years based in New York and fifteen years in Sydney. Andrew (Art) started his career in Melbourne with JB Were and Son and was a partner at the merged entity with Goldman Sachs. For the past six years he has been Head of Equities for JPMorgan, Australia. As part of this role at JPM he was a member of the Asia Pacific Equity Management team.

Art has previously served on both the Board of Trustees for the GSJBWere Superannuation fund and the Investment Committee. Art has also been a panel member of ASIC’s Markets Disciplinary Panel.

Art holds a Bachelor of Economics, a Graduate Diploma of Applied Finance and Investment and has previously held the US FINRA Series & License to Advise in the USA.

Art has been a member of both the Finance & Investment Committees at Loreto Toorak since 2017. He was appointed Chair of the Investment Committee in 2022 and Chair of the Finance Committee and joined the Board in 2023.

Art has a daughter currently in Year 10 and an older daughter who graduated from Loreto Toorak in 2020.